A male and female Baltimore oriole feed their young while perched on their hanging nest, which is made of materials like thin twigs, plant cotton and bark strips. Spring is in the air — which means ...

From purple martins to barn swallows, find out how to spot and identify 8 members of the swallow bird family during summer.

Cliff swallows are said by ornithologists to show the highest degree of colonization of any of the 89 swallow species in the world. Colonies can number from 200 to more than 2,000 nests. They could be ...

BUILT TO SUIT Birds, like people, build to suit, though birds are wa-a-ay more interested in camouflage than are we humans. Just as we have our styles of wood, adobe or brick, so do the birds: twig ...

I'd bet that when most of us think of birds' nests, we conjure up an image of a robin's cup, with its hardened-mud base and rather haphazard-looking grass and weed-stalk sides. But birds build a wide ...

Within the range of more ordinary cup-like woven nests, there is a lot of variation in construction, using different materials Among the thousands of bird species there is great variation in nesting ...

BALTIMORE (WBFF) — Two new bird chicks at the Maryland Zoo won't be visible to the public for a couple of weeks, thanks to the birds themselves. The zoo announced the hatching two Von der Decken’s ...

In my last column, I introduced the great drama of the bird world currently in progress: the nesting season. What I didn’t talk much about, however, are the nests themselves, those uncounted ...

Whether you love watching barn swallows up close or dread the mess they leave behind, a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service expert encourages you to take preventative action before the birds begin ...

Just outside my home-office window, I noticed a bird’s nest about 4 feet high in some leafless shrubbery on a cold, winter’s day. I had not seen the nest in summer when it was hidden by green ...